The Ohio river from Eden Park, Cincinnati 1914
Joseph H. Gest
* 1859 in Cincinnati † 1935 in Cincinnati
Pastel on grey paper. Size of sheet: 24 x 31.2 cm.
Signed and dated (lower left).
£ 4000.-
After studying in Hanover and Paris in 1870s, Gest graduated in 1880 from Harvard College, where he attended the art history classes of Charles Elion Norton. Soon he became an aide to Alfred Traber Goshorn, director of the Cincinnati Museum Association. During the 1890s he began exhibiting his own paintings at the Cincinnati Art Club, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Arts Institute of Chicago, and the Society of Western Artists. In 1902 he became director of the Museum Association as well as vice president of the Rookwood Pottery Company. Over the years Gest painted scenes of Michigan and of his native Cincinnati. He founded the Municipal Art Society of Cincinnati. ( from Weidman, J., Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A biographical dictionary, pp. 331-332)